On the Road to Larch Mountain, Mount Hood National Forest "Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word in the art world. But I don't think we can get along without it." - Robert Adams, photographer
{Sauvie Island, Portland, OR} "Though we have life, it is beyond us. We do not know how we have it or why. We do not know what is going to happen to it, or to us. It is not predictable, though we can destroy it, we cannot make it. It cannot, except by reduction and the grave risk of damage, be controlled. It is as Blake said, holy. To think otherwise is to enslave life, and to make, not humanity, but a few humans its predictably inept masters." - Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle
"Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstance might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were." - Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
